diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index 8e40321..1ec3c61 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -233,14 +233,17 @@
 	mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
 	put_online_cpus();
 
-	/*
-	 * There is no point in flooding logs with warnings or especially
-	 * crashing the system if we fail to create a cache for a memcg. In
-	 * this case we will be accounting the memcg allocation to the root
-	 * cgroup until we succeed to create its own cache, but it isn't that
-	 * critical.
-	 */
-	if (err && !memcg) {
+	if (err) {
+		/*
+		 * There is no point in flooding logs with warnings or
+		 * especially crashing the system if we fail to create a cache
+		 * for a memcg. In this case we will be accounting the memcg
+		 * allocation to the root cgroup until we succeed to create its
+		 * own cache, but it isn't that critical.
+		 */
+		if (!memcg)
+			return NULL;
+
 		if (flags & SLAB_PANIC)
 			panic("kmem_cache_create: Failed to create slab '%s'. Error %d\n",
 				name, err);